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Canter’s menu

Collection
Canter's Restaurants menu [2025.0096]
Source
Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Date
c.1955

Souvenir menu from Canter’s Restaurant in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Includes humorous uses of Yiddish-English slang for many items, as well as for a glossary called “Daffynitions.”

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